Drilling system.
AlphaBlueArx
Join Date: 2015-05-11 Member: 204402Members
Join Date: 2015-05-11 Member: 204402Members
To make the game more durable and fun i'd want to promote the suggestion of adding drilling systems to the game.
Each system would be composed of two machines one to locate and one to extract:
1. the first one would be a sonar or geophone to be more precise, capable of scanning an area using ultrasounds giving in return a list of the materials you can extract from it and the percent possibility of actually taking it out of the ground.
Like this:
Material/percentage
Titanium/70%
Copper/50%
Quartz/80%
Diamond/1%
Obiviously depending on where you are...in the safe shallows obviously the possibility of getting materials such as silver and gold would be very low while in the grassy plateus their possibilities would get higher for example.
It would need some titanium, a wiring kit and a computer chip
2. the second one would be the drill itself, i imagined a fully automated drill capable of breaking trough the crust, extracting the materials and taking them to surface for collection. (it would need a blueprint of course)
It would look like this more or less, it would require titanium, copper, a wiring kit (or an advanced wiring kit) and of course a power cell to make it work.
In case of fracture of the drill or explosion of an underneat gas pool, you could fix it with the welder.
And an upgrade for it would be adding a diamond head to make it extract materials more safely and profusely.
What do you think?
Each system would be composed of two machines one to locate and one to extract:
1. the first one would be a sonar or geophone to be more precise, capable of scanning an area using ultrasounds giving in return a list of the materials you can extract from it and the percent possibility of actually taking it out of the ground.
Like this:
Material/percentage
Titanium/70%
Copper/50%
Quartz/80%
Diamond/1%
Obiviously depending on where you are...in the safe shallows obviously the possibility of getting materials such as silver and gold would be very low while in the grassy plateus their possibilities would get higher for example.
It would need some titanium, a wiring kit and a computer chip
2. the second one would be the drill itself, i imagined a fully automated drill capable of breaking trough the crust, extracting the materials and taking them to surface for collection. (it would need a blueprint of course)
It would look like this more or less, it would require titanium, copper, a wiring kit (or an advanced wiring kit) and of course a power cell to make it work.
In case of fracture of the drill or explosion of an underneat gas pool, you could fix it with the welder.
And an upgrade for it would be adding a diamond head to make it extract materials more safely and profusely.
What do you think?
Comments
Perhaps an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) would be a better choice. Perhaps something like this... except with a Subnautica stylization and much smaller.
Different drill types.
However a stationary drill could reach higher depths than that and reach more venis.
That's not really how deep sea mining works, or mining works in general, but whatever.
Anyway you could still construct it, use it until there is materials in the area, deconstruct it and then place it again somewhere else?
You seem dubious of that last point.
Bore holes are still useful for other things like digging water wells, geothermal energy wells, and taking core samples. Although players might not be able to drill for minerals, there are still tons of cool uses for it.
Heck, you might have suggested the first way to have unlimited water! Instead of having to relocate around thermal vents players could drill a bore to use with the thermal generator. Lastly, core samples might have useful information about the planet's past. Geology really hasn't been represented well in this game... especially surveys that would be useful for terraforming.
There could even be drill research - tricone, vertical, and DTH hammer - and each one could have its own benefits and drawbacks.
Wow you know lemon i was actually thinking about suggesting to enable the drill to extract liquids such as water, but i thought that then it might have been redundant since you could get the water also with a desalinization device, but still the idea of harvesting mineral water is fairly good thinking about it
And the idea of using it also for geothermal energy is genius too, maybe the sonar could give infos about the possibility of creating a geothermal energy well, like the quantity of power per well you could obtain in an area!